Welcome to the WPEC 2012-2013! We hope that you find these Teacher Leader Consortium meetings beneficial and professionally challenging! Please join our Wiki so that you can post and share with your colleagues.
May 7, 2013 Session Four: Employing Effective Instructional Strategies
Websites to Explore
Socrative: Engage all students in answering questions using computers, tablets or phones with the app or website
Assistments: free online platform that allows teachers to write and select questions, students get immediate and useful tutoring, and teachers receive instant reports to help inform their classroom instruction.
19 Pencils: This unique site allows teachers to search for educational content, quizzes and more.
Bubbl.us: online brainstorming and mindmapping tool
20 Google Tools: There is more to Google than Search and Google Docs that can be used to facilitate learning, at all levels.
There's an App for That!: Technology and Learning shares apps that correlate with the Common Core Standards! Class Dojo: An online behavior management that simplifies the process of recording, reinforcing and reporting.
Nanoogo: Another web 2.o tool designed to help teachers who want to engage students in the writing process. It provides lesson plans for teachers and a platform for students to share their stories in a safe environment.
Flipped Learning Network: Learn and connect with those who are successfully flipping their classrooms
Infinite Thinking Machine : Video series that inspires teachers to be creative and innovative with technology in the classroom
February 5, 2013 Session Three : Edcamp, LOC, and Smackdown!
What is an Edcamp?
An edcamp is an "unconference" in which the participants identify the workshop content in an open, collegial environment.
This video gives a simple-to-understand explanation:
WPEC attendees will identify topics of interest to discuss. We will break into small groups and attendees are free to attend the sessions they want!
What is LOC?
The Library of Congress! At today's session, trained Media Center representatives from Waynesburg University will share the array of resources that the Library of Congress has to offer teachers.
This is the educational decamp version of a sharing session that takes place at the end of a workshop. Today's Smackdown will feature WPEC attendees sharing effective teaching strategies that they use in their classrooms. Sharing will take place by school level for a more meaningful experience.
We hope that you find these Teacher Leader Consortium meetings beneficial and professionally challenging! Please join our Wiki so that you can post and share with your colleagues.
May 7, 2013 Session Four: Employing Effective Instructional Strategies
Websites to Explore
Socrative: Engage all students in answering questions using computers, tablets or phones with the app or website
Assistments: free online platform that allows teachers to write and select questions, students get immediate and useful tutoring, and teachers receive instant reports to help inform their classroom instruction.
19 Pencils:
This unique site allows teachers to search for educational content, quizzes and more.
Bubbl.us: online brainstorming and mindmapping tool
20 Google Tools:
There is more to Google than Search and Google Docs that can be used to facilitate learning, at all levels.
There's an App for That!: Technology and Learning shares apps that correlate with the Common Core Standards!
Class Dojo: An online behavior management that simplifies the process of recording, reinforcing and reporting.
Nanoogo: Another web 2.o tool designed to help teachers who want to engage students in the writing process. It provides lesson plans for teachers and a platform for students to share their stories in a safe environment.
Flipped Learning Network: Learn and connect with those who are successfully flipping their classrooms
Infinite Thinking Machine : Video series that inspires teachers to be creative and innovative with technology in the classroom
February 5, 2013 Session Three : Edcamp, LOC, and Smackdown!
What is an Edcamp?
An edcamp is an "unconference" in which the participants identify the workshop content in an open, collegial environment.
This video gives a simple-to-understand explanation:
WPEC attendees will identify topics of interest to discuss. We will break into small groups and attendees are free to attend the sessions they want!
What is LOC?
The Library of Congress! At today's session, trained Media Center representatives from Waynesburg University will share the array of resources that the Library of Congress has to offer teachers.
Click here to link to the LIbrary of Congress.
What is a Smackdown?
This is the educational decamp version of a sharing session that takes place at the end of a workshop. Today's Smackdown will feature WPEC attendees sharing effective teaching strategies that they use in their classrooms. Sharing will take place by school level for a more meaningful experience.
Most of the time a Smackdown is a time when each participant has 2 minutes to share a great web tool. Click here to see a great Smackdown example from Philly Edcamp 2012.Using QR Codes in Education
Click here to download a blog that provides a simple explanation of QR codes with great ways to use them in your classroom!
Qurify is a simple way to generate QR codes that you can download and insert into documents
Keepers and Effective Teaching Strategies (What Works) from our February 5, 2013 Session
These are the keepers from the, Morning's EDCAMP sessions. (apologies for the sideways orientation)
KEEPERS
These are the Smackdown effective teaching strategies that we shared within our grade levels.
EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES
- 10% SUMMARY
- Active reading, comprehension
- Modeling/scaffolding
- Authentic/Project Based
- 360* Cities website
- Docs Teach –set up projects with national archives documents
- Add compare/contrast to reports/research so they will go beyond reciting facts
- Math- create word problems for others, and be prepared to explain or help others solve.
- Students self-assess own work-You critique to tell how many errors, and they find and fix(done by page not to overwhelm).
- Expecting more!
- Fantasy Congress
- Citizen participation
- Creating business plans
14. Election-ancient Greece-simulationDecember 11, 2013 Session Two Common Core/ Web 2.0 Differentiation
PDE Resource on Common Core
PDE SAS portal
“Globalize Your Teaching”
December 11, 2012
Emily LaSalle
elasalle@uscsd.k12.pa.us
Link to Presentation:
Useful Links:
Free Class Web Page: Weebly
Class Blogs: Class blog meister or kidblog
Podcasting/Vodcasting: Podomatic or Audacity
Online penpals: Epals
Blabbers: Blabberize
Online storytelling: Voicethread
Create online tutorial: Jing
Publish presentations on line: Slideboom
October 23, 2012 Session One Websites
Edmodo--a social network tool kit to help teachers manage communication with their students
Schoology-a "Facebook" type of interface that teachers can use as a learning management tool
Thinkfinity--a Verizon partnership with PDE to provide teachers with lesson plans that meet the standards
TeachersFirst--a free site that provides teachers with many tools to assist with teaching and learning
Edutopia--a site that highlights trends and practical teaching strategies
Ookaboo--free pictures for educators
Sophia--free tutorials on a myriad of classroom subjects
A video that shows an example of student engagement